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Crash biker learns to walk again after memory loss
A TEENAGER left fighting for life after a motorbike crash in Sheffield cannot remember the last three months of his life and is having to learn how to walk again.
Ryan Simpson, aged 18, suffered severe head injuries two months ago when his bike crashed into a road sign on the A61 Penistone Road.
The apprentice tyre fitter was thrown onto the road near the junction with St Philips Road and, two months on, police officers are still trying to piece together exactly what happened.
They are keen to speak to a taxi driver who stopped to help Ryan before emergency services arrived.
Ryan's dad Chris Simpson, 47, who lives in Woodseats, told The Star today the taxi driver could be a "key witness".
"This taxi driver could mean the difference to somebody getting prosecuted over this or them walking away scot-free - he may have seen everything that happened," he said.
"For Ryan's sake we want him to tell the police everything he saw."
Before the crash Ryan lived at times with his dad in Woodseats and sometimes with his mum in Shiregreen. But since the crash Ryan has been confined to a hospital bed - and at first the prognosis was that, if he pulled through, he would never walk again.
Chris said: "He has proved the doctors wrong and is starting to take some steps, and now that he is making progress we can concentrate on finding out what exactly happened.
"Ryan has lost his short term memory. His last memory is from about a month before the accident, so it is really important that the taxi driver tells the police if he actually saw the accident."
Ryan suffered two broken legs and is undergoing physiotherapy to help him walk again.
Medics have warned he may never make a full recovery.
Police officers also want to hear from the occupants of a white van and a minibus in the area.
Anyone with information about the collision at around 1.15am on Sunday May 3 should call 0114 220 2970.
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